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Monday, December 12, 2016

Shmaltz brews blend a birthday and a holiday

The folks at Shmaltz Brewery are wishing themselves "Happy Hanuday," or some such thing. For a company that specializes in quirky concoctions and tongue-in-cheek naming of them, it wouldn't be surprising.

The salutatory mashup refers to the Clifton Park brewer turning 20 this Hanukkah -- or Chanukah -- season as what they call "the largest, the smallest, the most award winning, and astonishingly still the only Jewish celebration beer company in the country."

Shmaltz began as a San Francisco contract brewer (i.e., hiring someone else to actually produce its products), then in 2010 opened a tiny commercial brewery in Brooklyn, then in 2013 opened its own 40,000-square-foot brewery in Saratoga County.

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Bill Dowd, author and veteran newspaper journalist as well as a longtime writer/judge in the world of adult beverages, is based in Troy, New York. This site is a recent consolidation of several of his longstanding blogs that separately had reported on distilling, winemaking, and brewing.